The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel820,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel820
Describes a tour of ships and dockyards at Southampton, including a view of James Nasmyth's steam hammer; got the last train for London, where JH is spending a few days with E. MacKintosh before returning home.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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